We reported the sale of the domain name Funchat.com back just a few weeks ago on May 24 for $40K on Afternic.com
Today in a Press Release FunMobility, announced “the North American launch of FunChat™, the world’s first cross-platform chat, gaming and pranking smartphone app.”
“FunChat seamlessly blends chat, multiplayer HTML5 games, FunGold™ virtual currency, rewards, and achievements into one free application that allows iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android users to play and interact together in real-time. FunChat also features the world’s first mobile pranking engine where users can push audio pranks to smartphones even if the phone is in standby mode.”
“Funmobility.com, the makers of FunMail, a picture-messaging app that organically pairs your texts with appropriate (and fun) images, FunTones, a large collection of funny ringtones, and FunMe, a suite of tools for consumers to create, share, and post their own user-generated content, is clearly striving for a particular brand message. I think it has something to do with “fun”.”
So what was the domain name funchat.com really worth to this company?
I would say a lot more than the $40K they paid for it.
It’s a significant upgrade from what they were previously using – FunChatApp.com – which they registered in August of last year.
Domains as names for apps as ron blagojevich would say = F-N GOLDEN!
good domain for a ChatRoulette clone
It might have been worth more to them, but $40k is still a nice sale for this name. It’s not like it went for a couple hundred or couple thousand, like Zynga was able to do with some of their domain acquisitions.